[Nix-dev] My blog post on overrides in Nix

[James Cook]

On 22 April 2014 09:15,  <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
> I spent the weekend trying to unravel the mystery of how the various
> override mechanisms in Nixpkgs work.  I wrote up my findings in a blog
> post.
>
> <http://r6.ca/blog/20140422T142911Z.html>
>
> Let me know if you find any factual error, or have any other comments.

Thanks; this was enlightening.  I also didn't know about the
nix-instantiate --eval-only - trick.

James